Word: franklins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas, president of the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, Inc., do? She called up Mrs. Alfred E. Smith, wife of the Democratic presidential nominee, and invited her to be guest of honor at the Federation's luncheon last week. Then she wrote to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the wife of the Democratic nominee for Governor of New York, and asked her to make sure that Mrs. Smith had received the invitation. Then she wrote to Mrs. Roosevelt and said: ''Please accept this as an official recall of the invitation...
Penetrating behind the electoral votes predicted in 1924 to the ratios of popular votes then predicted by the Literary Digest, Democrats last week pointed to wider margins of error. Dr Fabian Franklin, Manhattan economist-publicist, in a debate by letter with Editor William Seaver Woods of the Literary Digest, compared the predicted ratios of Davis and Coolidge votes in 1924 with actual ratios. In 22 states, the Literary Digest's figures predicting what percentage of the Coolidge vote the Davis vote would be, put the Davis vote from 10% to 48% too low. Had the 1924 election not been...
...undergraduate trade. "No Vote-No Trade," "Recrimination for Discrimination," cried campus signs. This phase of the affair was reminiscent of the origin of it all. Last year the Princeton undergraduates were not allowed to vote in a mayoral primary election. Reason alleged: one of the candidates was Benjamin Franklin ("Bacon") Bunn, keeper of the co-operative store on the University campus. Another candidate, a onetime faculty member named Van Nest, believed that the students would pour out to vote for popular Storekeeper Bunn sooner than for an obscure pedagog...
...another group of men remained to be invited to the Conference of Major Industries. Meat-packers announced a list of seven speakers who should interpret, jointly and severally, "The Current Situation." Impressive were names, titles, themes, as follows: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President, American Construction Council (Building and Construction); Harold Higgins Franklin Swift, Swift & Co. (Meat-packing); Myron Charles Taylor, Chairman Finance Committee, U. S. Steel Corp. (Iron and Steel); Charles Franklin Kettering, President, General Motors Research Corp. (Automobiles); Walter Sherman Gifford, President A. T. & T. (Communication); Frank Brett Noyes, President, The Associated Press (Printing and Publishing); Charles Edwin Mitchell, President...
Prohibition was also the aperitif at the Boston clinical congress of the American College of Surgeons last week. Franklin N. Martin of Chicago, president of the College, interrupted his formal inaugural talk to say: "More than two-thirds of our people morally and spiritually favor the 18th Amendment to the Constitution. In spite of the injudicious administration, which has resulted in an orgy of lawbreaking, of self-indulgence and ridicule on the part of the other one-third of our citizens, the foundation has been laid for a demonstration of race betterment and extension of life that will astonish...